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Kenpo Karate was formerly known as the Ed Parker system because many of the Kenpo instructors trained directly under that great martial artists. However, the founder of Kenpo Karate was not Ed Parker but rather his instructor, Professor William (Willie) K. S. Chow, who started calling his system Kenpo Karate in 1949. Chow trained in Kenpo Jiu-Jitsu under Great Grand Master James Mitose who had learned the Kenpo art in Japan from his grandfather Sakuhi Yoshida. See A Brief History of Kenpo)